We investigate the impacts of natural disasters (henceforth called disaster impact) on Central Vietnam's regional GDP growth per capita. We use provincial data on disaster damages for nineteen provinces and cities in Vietnam’s Central Region from the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority (VDMA). The Statistical Yearbook of Each Province in the Region (SYEP) provides three state, private, and foreign capital datasets. The General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSOV) provides data on local vulnerabilities and resiliencies. Since GDP per capita is also a measure of resiliency, we write the estimation model as a system of equations to account for the possible feedback effects. This system calls for three-stage least squares (3SLS) estimations. The results showed that vulnerabilities exacerbate the disaster impact, while resiliencies help reduce this impact on regional GDP per capita growth. Regarding the feedback effect, GDP per capita does lessen the disaster impact. Last, we suggest strategies for local governance to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience.

For many, the world appears in dire turmoil. Every day transformations in our lives due to U.S. and global actions and reactions appear. For many our current world doesn’t resemble the world we knew just weeks ago. We’re confounded, pondering what to do next—especially with our money. This article traces and responds to that, guiding how to beneficially move forward by redirecting our money into support for the areas we care about, and people we want to support. Regardless of political perspective, today’s social disruption largely results from current U.S. Executive Branch activities. According to former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich, we’re in a national emergency “to justify his wholesale leveling of significant portions of the federal government and civil service and his virulent attacks on the pillars of civil society — our universities, the media, science, law, and the arts”(2025) In response, “Move On” and other national organizations are pulling together people and providing guidance in large scale efforts through this turbulence, mobilizing people for better futures. Yet, large scale resistance and mobilization is only part of the story. Here, we will introduce the discipline of EcoSociology, and discuss how we can use it to plan our lives to support solutions of major world problems through managing expenses and directing our earnings in proactive and progressive ways. We will discuss the “EcoSocial Evolution”, operationalizing Bernard Phillips’ (2024) lead series article: “How to Save the World: Toward a New Social Movement—'Individual Evolution’.” echoing a Japanese proverb: ‘Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare’.” We’ll begin by summarizing Bernard Phillips’ lead article for this series, followed by highlighting the principles of EcoSociology and EcoSocial Planning, then illustrating those principles with conclusions, thereby presenting a practical guide for personal and collective transformation.

This study examines peer bullying in a multidimensional way in the context of both clinical psychology and industrial psychology, and examines the effects of bullying experiences during childhood and adolescence on the psychological development and adulthood of adulthood. From the perspective of clinical psychology, exposure to peer bullying or application can have mental consequences such as post -traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety disorders, low self -esteem and attachment problems in the individual. These psychological effects deeply shape the individual's personality structure, coping strategies and the way they establish social relations. In particular, neglectful or authoritarian family attitudes pave the way for the development of these pathologies. From the perspective of industrial psychology, the reflections of these early psychological injuries on the behaviors and organizational relations of the individual in business life were investigated. While the risks of living, insecurity, organizational silence and burnout increase in the work environment in the later lives of bullying victims, increases; In the past, controlling leadership, passive-knowledge communication forms and psychological harassment tendencies can be observed in individuals who have applied bullying in the past. In addition, it is seen that individuals who lack appropriate emotional support in the family have difficulty in the ties they have established with hierarchical relationships in the workplace and have difficulty in setting healthy boundaries with their colleagues. The article explains how these processes that start with clinical symptoms are transferred to the business life and emphasize the importance of psychological security, trauma sensitivity and employee support programs in order to break the cycle of bullying in institutional structures. As a result, it is not only the clinical, but also in the organizational level; For this reason, it is argued that intervention and prevention studies should be designed with a holistic approach.

The curriculum, as a direction or guideline for learning, covers a variety of subjects, including Islamic Religious Education. Because it has its own characteristics, it is important for us to develop it according to its context. The 2013 curriculum, which has been in effect since the first semester of the 2014/2015 academic year, shows substantial changes in the realm of education. Its main mission is to create a generation that is able to think critically, has creativity and innovation, and can make a significant contribution in advancing the nation's knowledge. The implementation of the 2013 Curriculum is an important part of the latest efforts to reform the education system, which always follows the dynamics of life as stipulated in the National Education System Law number 20 of 2003. This reform summarizes curriculum changes that take into account the diversity of learners and local potential, as well as the establishment of national and regional Graduate Competency Standards by taking into account the conditions of each region. Although implemented since the 2014/2015 school year, Curriculum 2013 initially drew criticism for being rushed and not considering the readiness of educators. The main obstacle in its implementation is the readiness of teachers, which is a crucial factor in its successful implementation. However, despite this, the enthusiasm of schools to implement it remained high, wanting a significant transformation, especially in the competency standards.

My focus in this article is on both the underlying cause of the fundamental problem we are all facing at this time in history as well as on a direction for solving that problem. I see that cause as our bureaucratic way of life with its emphasis on persisting hierarchy, narrow specialization, and personal conformity. And I’m convinced that our learning new habits throughout our everyday lives which emphasize the combination of mindfulness, evolutionary perception, and interaction—or “head,” “heart” and “hand”—provides the direction we require to solve that problem by moving toward an evolutionary way of life. My contact with C. Wright Mills at Columbia, together with work with my co-author of Creating Life Before Death: Before Disaster Strikes the Ship of State, 2nd edition (2024), Thomas J. Savage—as well as Andy Plotkin, Neil S. Weiss, Sergio M. Sanseverino, William Tarman-Ramcheck, Alecea Standlee, Max O. Spitzer, Arnold Kraft Sherman, Charles Thorpe and Ray Porter, along with others—have enabled us to demonstrate through our publications the power of these ideas. As illustrations of those publications, I’ve included my resume along with summaries of a number of articles published since the appearance in 2024 of Creating Life Before Death. These ideas yield a direction for peacefully fulfilling the democratic aims of the 1960s counterculture.

While machine translation (MT) tools are capable of improving translation efficiency for language service industry, MT post-editing quality still remains challenging due to language gaps and customer requirements. This study investigates the application of Deepseek in new energy translations and puts forward five post-editing strategies for Chinese-English translation. The article provides effective solutions for optimizing DeepSeek’s translation, facilitating international dissemination of new energy technologies.

Academic debates on the structure of the post -Cold War International System, especially since the 2000s, show that global power distribution has been reshaped on the axis of one polarity, two polarity and multipolarity. This study aims to systematically examine the theoretical and empirical literature that develops around the concept of multipolarity. This analysis, which was created by literature screening method, has been shaped on the basic axes such as the theories of power balance, the rise of large powers and the transformation of the international order. China's economic and military rise, Russia's strategic moves and the process of integration of the European Union, such as the integration process of the existing system evolved into very polarity or still exacerbated the discussions of a US -based order. In addition to mainstream theories such as realism, neoliberal institutionalism and British school, this study, which is evaluated with the contribution of critical approaches, comparatively analyzes different academic positions of multiple polarity. Thus, it aims to shed light on the gaps and contradictions in the existing literature of the structure of the international system.

This study examines the workplace culture experienced by Generation Z employees coffee shops in Malang, Indonesia. As digital natives, Gen Z workers highly prioritize flexibility, transparent communication, and a healthy work-life balance, prompting service-based businesses to rethink how they shape their organizational culture. Utilizing a qualitative approach and based on current theoretical frameworks in organizational behavior, the research explores how Gen Z employees interpret, engage with, and influence the cultural environment in creative and service-driven workplaces. Core elements identified include autonomy, collaborative teamwork, adaptable work schedules, and the alignment of work environments that foster emotional well-being, participative leadership, and spaces for personal expression. Conversely, workplaces characterized by rigidity or cultural misalignment often result in disengagement and dissatisfaction. This study enhances our understanding of generational dynamics within organizational workplaces for employers aiming to effectively engage and retain Gen Z talent in fast-paced, competitive industries.

Our focus here is on presenting our vision of what an evolutionary way of life might possibly look like, providing one view of an alternative to our present bureaucratic way of life (with its emphasis on persisting hierarchy, narrow specialization, and personal conformity). Yet in order to communicate the basis for our vision, we have included brief presentations on the nature of our bureaucratic problems in both the introduction and Section IX. To summarize that analysis, the gap between what people want and are able tp get has been increasing rapidly in contemporary societies, due to our continuing technological revolutions coupled with the escalation of advertising. This “revolution of rising expectations,” coupled with people’s limited ability to fulfill them, has yielded a poisonous combination of widespread frustration followed by aggression. Yet despite widespread pessimism coupled with the lack of insight into the nature of this fundamental problem, we can learn to solve it. For we human beings are absolutely fantastic organisms. Indeed, we are the most evolved entity throughout the entire known universe. For example, by learning to view phenomena with what we call “evolutionary perception,” we can continue to gain personal reinforcement. And we can come to see ourselves as the veritable jewels of the universe. We can go on from there to reconstruct ourselves and society, moving from our bureaucratic way of life toward an evolutionary way of life stressing equality, interdisciplinary knowledge and autonomy. By so doing, we can proceed to reconstruct our many social structures, such as education, work, health care, technology, our prisons, and even our patterns of behavior linked to homelessness. Our key metaphors are the seed, or the individual, and the field, or society. We seeds are encased within hard shells, namely, our bureaucratic way of life. We must learn to abandon our shells despite the enormous difficulty of doing so, since we will have to change a lifetime of habitual behavior. The result will be a newfound ability to fulfill our incredible potentials for learning (“head”), emotional development (“heart”), and problem- solving (“hand”). It should be little wonder that our 4-H clubs for children emphasize “head,” “heart,” “hand” and “health.” Those changes will in turn reverse our widespread pessimism about the present and future, turning us toward optimism about ourselves and the future of the world. Our vision of the future includes evolutionary actions of all kinds: “personal reconnection,” “relational regeneration,” “practical coherence,” “silent action,” “field creation” and “ecological patience,” Indeed, such behavior illustrates what it means to be alive.

Social media has, over the past few decades, become a powerful communication platform capable of influencing consumer decision-making at various levels. The growth of social media has led to the emergence of high profile individuals with huge followings and capability to influence users on critical matters in key topical areas and business sectors. Many tourism and tourism-related business are increasingly using these individuals, known as social media influencers, to attract clients to their establishments. This study aimed to explore the influence of the credibility of social media influencers on the decision-making of domestic tourists in Kenya. It focused on social media influencers and how they affect the decision making of domestic tourists in Kenya to determine whether or not they lead to purchase or non-purchase of holidays within the country. The study targeted domestic tourists who follow social media influencers in Nairobi and Kiambu counties. Questionnaires were used to collect data from a sample of 399 respondents. The study found a moderate relationship between information source credibility and the decision-making of domestic tourists in Kenya. The study further established that social media was a dominant force with profound impact on travel decisions. The study therefore recommends that the tourism sector leverage the use of credible social media influencers in their marketing campaigns. Moreover, tourism marketers and advertisers should incorporate credibility indicators into their marketing assessment processes. Evaluating and monitoring the credibility of information sources should be an integral part of measuring marketing effectiveness.